Guild Wars 2

As we all know, confusion and torment are great for pvp but horrible for pve. This will make the Mirage hard to balance for both, just like how the core mesmer condi specs are strong in pvp but poor in pve. So by changing some of the confusion and/or torment into burning the Mirage can get some more use in pve as a condi spec without making the pvp Mirage too strong.

And it matches the lore as well: Deserts are hot places with little to shade you from the sun, and mirrors can be used to burn stuff with sunlight – hence burning would make sense.

While I agree, at the same time burning on an axe is something the Firebrand already does. I’d rather use Bleeding then I suppose, also fits the idea of clones breaking into glass shards.

Bleeding is fine. It is the confusion and torment that is the issue.

No you see then Mirage might actually do some damage, we can’t have that.

Necro’s new support spec has better dps traits then our supposed dps line.

I dont think mirage will be meta in pve\raid, crap conditions (confusion\torment) aside bleed and situational mechanics as cloack make it looks like an op pvp build but a niche (mathias\cairn) build for raid\pve.

Considering that guard is goin to stack permaquick (heal\aegis\stab gives 2 sec of quickness – 4 with boon duration) as well as sharing burning to other people every time he put quickness with 10sec icd + personal burning, we can expect him to do more dmg than chrono.

So our last anchor to meta is alacrity.

New rev spec is goin to take alacrity aside burning \0/

As a mesmer im a bit worried

I guess other specs having access to alacrity and or quickness is a good thing. Promotes comp diversity. Either get a chrono mesmer or guard or rev. And if u go for guard or rev, the mesmer can play mirage and go condi dps.

But yeah, i hope mirage will have good dps in PvE. Confusion and torment are my fav condis in the game so im glad thet kept those 2 as the mirages core condis. However i would have liked a trait that adds more consistent burning as well as a 4th condi. Then again who knows how strong this ‘backstab’ effect will be (forgot the name of it sorry.) Because staff does bleeds & burning as well. So i feel like mirage will have good condi burst. How good it will be for sustained damage is another story though.

Also I wonder how useful torch & pistol will be with their phantasms since this spec doesnt seem to have much for phantasms.

aelfwe.4239:

I dont think mirage will be meta in pve\raid, crap conditions (confusion\torment) aside bleed and situational mechanics as cloack make it looks like an op pvp build but a niche (mathias\cairn) build for raid\pve.

Considering that guard is goin to stack permaquick (heal\aegis\stab gives 2 sec of quickness – 4 with boon duration) as well as sharing burning to other people every time he put quickness with 10sec icd + personal burning, we can expect him to do more dmg than chrono.

So our last anchor to meta is alacrity.

New rev spec is goin to take alacrity aside burning \0/

As a mesmer im a bit worried

If Chrono loses its Raid spot I am looking forward as to what reason people with come up with to say we should be crap in the rest of the game.

Levetty.1279:

aelfwe.4239:

I dont think mirage will be meta in pve\raid, crap conditions (confusion\torment) aside bleed and situational mechanics as cloack make it looks like an op pvp build but a niche (mathias\cairn) build for raid\pve.

Considering that guard is goin to stack permaquick (heal\aegis\stab gives 2 sec of quickness – 4 with boon duration) as well as sharing burning to other people every time he put quickness with 10sec icd + personal burning, we can expect him to do more dmg than chrono.

So our last anchor to meta is alacrity.

New rev spec is goin to take alacrity aside burning \0/

As a mesmer im a bit worried

If Chrono loses its Raid spot I am looking forward as to what reason people with come up with to say we should be crap in the rest of the game.

Don’t worry, the sheer stupidity and thick headedness will prevail until mesmer is once again in a spot as during end of vanilla: not needed anywhere, now with not even as portal bots.

I do feel for necros though, they have had a rough time ever since release and were not really needed in the raid meta. They do deserve some love.

We will have to wait and see. At least spvp and wvw might be even more deadly now on mesmer, until the nerf bat hits us there too.